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Server Radar: Hetzner Auction Tracking Tool
Hey LowEndTalk community,
I wanted to share a little pet project I've been working on that might be useful for fellow Hetzner enthusiasts. It's called Server Radar (https://radar.iodev.org), a free tool to track and analyze Hetzner Auction server prices.
Key Features
* Price history tracking
* Advanced server configuration filtering
* Free email alerts for price drops
* Open-source project
Backstory: I was constantly manually checking Hetzner Auctions and thought, "There's got to be a better way." So I built this.
Source code is available on GitHub for anyone interested in contributing or understanding how it works. I'm not monetizing this – it's purely a community tool.
Would love to hear your thoughts. Has anyone else built similar tracking tools? What features would you find useful?
Cheers
Comments
Wow that's quite a bit of work done for a "little pet project". The UI is slick.
lol, I found and shared it months before the actual dev, I should get a medal
https://lowendtalk.com/discussion/200573/found-a-cool-website-for-monitoring-hetzner-auction-servers/p1
How's DuckDB working in production? Is it stable now? I last used it when they broke backwards compatibility every month and you had to export/import the database.
Great tool!!
Thank you! It's built on the shoulders of giants, using https://flowbite-svelte.com/ for the UI.
Oh wow, completely missed that! Thanks for sharing!
It's been working pretty well. Occasionally I have seen issues with the generated database being unreadable with the WASM module, but I never followed up and it seemed to have resolved itself. I probably should generate the database with WASM too instead of using Python (or at least ensure it's the same version).
Anyhow, architecture is in kind of a limbo at the moment - I started purely static with DuckDB only, but when I added alerting, I had to add a backend. And now I have both. Will probably get rid of DuckDB mid-term, but it was fun using it.
According to the statistics page, the price of everything (except amd cpus?) is dropping since november, that is very interesting!
Great tool! I was wondering why I found the site so familiar and it's because @emgh shared it first
You're a christian.
Yea, I saw that too. To be honest I think there are probably some bugs in the queries, at least I know of a few. Need to get to the root of it. Here's the queries for the statistics: https://github.com/elsbrock/hetzner-radar/blob/27fe97e5c3e88b63c7eaca45c50859f364e49bc7/src/lib/api/frontend/stats.ts
By the way, if anyone wants to play with the data, you can directly attach it to any DuckDB like this:
duckdb -cmd "attach 'https://static.radar.iodev.org/sb.duckdb' (read_only); use sb;"Everything is located in table
server.Looks cool.
How do u get data from hetzner ? do they have any api ? or u simply scrape their site ?
See here.
Thanks. It is good that they provide the data. What if we want to get similar data from other providers. Is it a standard practice ? or we have to contact them ? I was thinking to build a similar tool for various famous providers.
I don't think it's a common practice, but there are some websites that track prices of servers in general. I never really figured out how they do it, they can't just possibly scrape them all?
I think ServerHunter for example do, but I could very well be wrong
Why not?
Good nice work. I am also working on OVH bot to avail some crazy deals which I keeps missing
Seems very inefficient and inaccurate to me. But hey, if it works
Just out of curiosity, what is the minimum price of a dedicated server have you ever found in hetzner auction?
Sorry, missed this. See here: https://radar.iodev.org/statistics
For Intel, lowest bound seems to be 29EUR. AMD, 35EUR.